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The ugly truth about abortion

by Derek W. on March 6th, 2006

John Lofton of The American View is quickly becoming one of my favorite political commentators.

And this is why.

As we’ve undoubtedly all heard by now, South Dakota has just banned nearly all abortions, except in cases where the mother’s life is in danger. (Obviously it’s great to see what can happen when truly pro-life conservatives actually do something about these murders en masse, and not just pay lip service to the pro life position, as some do. )

On a recent radio show, Lofton debated Kate Looby, head of the only Planned Parenthood abortion center in South Dakota. You can read the entire transcript here, where you will see Lofton taking Ms. Looby to school when it comes to the Constitution and the Supreme Court. But undoubtedly, this is the most interesting part of the exchange:

[Q is Lofton, A is Looby]

Q: Well, let me ask you, finally here — I interviewed Kate Michelman the other day about her new book and I’ve talked to her and pro-lifers and I’ve asked them: How do you characterize what it is that is aborted in an abortion? What words or phraseology do you use?

A: I’m sorry?

Q: In other words, how do you characterize what happens in an abortion? What happens – what is aborted in an abortion? What are the words or phrase that you use to characterize what’s aborted in an abortion?

A: John, I agreed to come on to talk to you on the radio if we were talking about the um, the state of South Dakota’s ban on abortion.

Q: Right.

A: If you want to get into details of abortion care here that wasn’t —.

Q: It was a simple question.

A: That was not how we agreed to do the interview.

Q: Look, first of all – this is clearly within the topic we are talking about – abortion. Because when I talked about an unborn baby or an innocent baby unborn with Kate Michelman she corrected me and said it’s a fetus. So I’ve started out now to ask you what is the language or phraseology that you use to describe what it is being aborted in an abortion. Just tell me in a sentence or two because I’m sure you’ve used some phraseology in the past to talk about that.

A: We’ve typically talked about terminating a pregnancy.

Q: Terminating a pregnancy. Okay. I saw something several weeks ago that I wish I hadn’t seen (a video of an abortion.) Have you ever seen an abortion?

A: Of course.

Q: Well, it was horrifying to me — to see little arms and legs being torn apart and come gushing out —.

A: John, I’m going to stop the interview now.

Q: I figured you would.

A: I’m not interested in this – this is ridiculous.

Q: I figured you would. I wouldn’t want to defend it either if I were you.

She hangs up the phone.

First of all, it is incredibly sad to see this. But at the same time, it’s really amazing to see what happens to pro-abortion advocates when conservatives actually confront them with what abortion actually is. Frankly, this is the kind of thing that the every day American and especially the every day high school student needs to be exposed to—the complete collapse of liberals when confronted with the brutality of the thing they defend and support at virtually all costs.

Kudos to Mr. Lofton for having the guts to confront this woman on his radio show! Hopefully examples like this will help people sitting on the fence recognize what an evil abortion is.

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